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Love of flight beckons Trail cadet Down Under

Alex has been a Trail cadet and J. L. Crowe student for several years and was pleased about receiving one of 10 place-ments reserved for applicants across the country.

In order to apply, he had to demon-strate his involvement in the cadets, good grades and ability to follow orders. He also had to pass an intensive screening contest, but was chuffed when the accept-ance letter finally came in the mail.

“I was relieved that I received any type of response because I didn’t know if they would send a letter to me either way,” he said. “But when I read it, I was really overjoyed.”

He will be traveling for two weeks in Sydney and Brisbane and spending time with the cadets in Montreal before he ages out of the program in August, when he expects to apply to become an officer with the cadets and continue flying on the weekends while pursuing a degree.

“If I wanted to do this and hadn’t participated in anything else, I probably wouldn’t have got it,” he said.

At the mere age of 12, Alex had com-pleted basic training with the cadets, a series of leadership courses and an intro-duction to aviation. But it wasn’t long

until he was flying as a glider and power pilot—he was only 16.

“Everybody has a hobby and flying is mine,” Alex explained. “This is my last year in the cadet program before I age out and an exchange seemed like a pretty cool thing to do.”

Alex is eager to meet “like-minded people,” see the sights and wrap up his last year in the cadets before entering a four-year engineering program at McGill.

He is looking forward to staying in an

Australian barracks every night, visiting the Australia Zoo and touring the Telstra Tower.

“Because I’m going into engineering, I think it will be really cool to see the Telstra Tower on Black Mountain,” Alex said. “It’s like the Australian version of Bell or Rogers so I’m looking forward to seeing that.”

Alex had initially applied for an exchange program in England because his extended family used to live there and

sent him gifts by post, which piqued his interest. But he was offered a placement in Australia. He wanted to get the travel-bug out of his system before settling into a degree program.

“I was still really happy,” he said. “You get three choices when you apply and I got my second so that’s still pretty good.”

Alex was accepted into an engineering program at McGill University this fall and will have roughly one week to settle into Montreal after his excursion to Australia.

THE CANADIAN PRESSJOHNSONS LANDING -

Crews are keeping a close eye on the weather as it hampers search efforts for four people believed to be buried in a massive landslide in south-eastern British Columbia.

Bill Macpherson of the Central Kootenay Regional District said the slope of mud, trees and other debris was deemed stable enough on

Sunday for rescue workers to head back to the tiny com-munity of Johnson’s Landing.

But Macpherson said with a thunderstorm warn-ing issued and rain falling, weather conditions were unstable and there’s a chance efforts would be called off if the site shows any sign of instability.

Macpherson said geotech-nicians are on scene to mon-

itor the slide’s movements and make decisions regarding the safety of the operation as rescuers move through the debris.

“They’re doing a grid-style search and they’re focusing on the high probability loca-tions where they hope to find these people, using GPS, mapping and the best infor-mation from local residents,” he said.

About 70 people from search and rescue, RCMP and other organizations have personnel participating in the search.

Police dogs were also expected to return to the site Sunday. At least three homes were crushed by the slide in the tiny hamlet on the shores of Kootenay Lake northeast of Nelson on Thursday.

See JOHNSONS, Page 3

Harsh weather could slow rescue operations for Kootenay Lake slide

BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff

Thanks to a prestigious scholarship, a J. L. Crowe grad will be taking flight this summer.

Alex Farnsworth-Philogene, 18, was accepted into the international air cadet exchange asso-ciation in Australia this summer and left for training on Sunday.

“He always loved planes and when he heard that the cadets could teach him how to fly, he signed up,” explained his mother, Laura Farnsworth. “He worked his way up—first as a glider pilot and then as a power pilot.”

BREANNE MASSEY PHOTO

Alex Farnsworth-Philogene stands at the Trail Regional Airport beside a Cessna 172. He used a similar model to this plane on the mainland last week under the Air Cadet League of Canada’s power pilot familiarization upgrade scholarship, valued at $2,500.

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Johnsons Landing slide on Thursday, July 13.

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BY MEGAN COLENelson Star

Mandy Bath said she is “lucky, very lucky.”

Her home was one of three that was destroyed in the landslide that tore through Johnsons Landing on Thursday morning.

“We had the house on the lake shore at the bottom of Gar Creek on the lake-shore,” she said.

“When the first slide came down, it came down in two directions, but the main part of the slide came down and crushed the house severely but didn’t wipe it out at that point.

“There were timbers and it was crum-pled but it still looked like it might be possible to salvage things, that was after day one.

“That was why I went up there, I thought that I might find my cat.”

But when the second slide, which is described to have been water, mud and debris, came down on Friday, Bath’s home was washed into Kootenay Lake.

“It was obliterated and just finished off the job and now there is nothing except a muddy slope where the house was,” she said.

Bath was supposed to be at the house.

Her husband was in Oregon visiting his mother.

“I hadn’t been able to get a ride to town on Tuesday, I wanted to go to Kaslo, there was a meeting I wanted to attend and I sent an email asking if anyone could take me into town. Nobody responded so I couldn’t go to town,” said Bath.

“On Thursday morning my friend Gillian, her house was also badly dam-aged, asked me if I wanted to go to town.

“She picked me up at 9 a.m. and I was at Creek corner looking at this brown, thick, awful liquid, but she picked me up and carried me off to town, and I was saved because of that.”

The “brown, thick, awful liquid” Bath describes is Gar Creek.

She, and many other neighbours had been noticing changes in the water, and now realize they were warnings signs.

“There were warnings. Hindsight is a fabulous thing but there were warnings,” said Bath.

“It turned from being water to a slurry. It was like a chocolate mouse. It was run-ning higher and higher.”

The Bath’s driveway went right over Gar Creek and Mandy said the night before the slide, she had been up, watch-ing the creek.

“I was worried,” she said. “I was up at midnight the night before the slide with a flashlight, looking at the creek wor-ried that the bank was going to give and looking at the colour. I couldn’t sleep. I was really worried that something was wrong.”

The creek went from the colour of brewed tea, to a thick slurry.

“It was painting the sides of the creek with a mask of mud on every leaf and every rock. This was a serious warning sign,” said Bath.

Now the Baths are residents of Kaslo, something Mandy is still coming to terms with. The couple had lived in the small community for 20 years.

“It’s a new chapter,” she said. “We have left Johnsons Landing. We

never imagined it would be like this. We are very lucky that we have a house in Kaslo and that’s where we’re going to be living from now on. I say those words and it’s hard to believe it.

“It’s hard to take in what we’re saying because we never expected we’d have to leave.

“It’s the most beautiful place to live...You just don’t expect that today’s the day that it’s the end of it all. It’s only after-wards you take it in.”

‘You just don’t expect that today’s the end:’ Johnsons Landing resident

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The mouth of Gar Creek where Mandy Bath’s home once stood.

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What started as a trip to deal with flooding at a Johnsons Landing cabin turned into an attempt to help the community after a massive slide swept through town yesterday morning.

Greg Utzig and his partner Nelson city coun-cillor Donna Macdonald have owned a cabin in the small community north of Kaslo for nearly 30 years.

Utzig was on his way to the cabin to deal with a flooding problem that he said became “pretty insignificant in comparison.”

“People were in shock, and secondly people were trying to find out which houses were hit and where people were and whether they were there or weren’t there. Then we decided which houses we were going to search,” he said.

Members of the community began searching the houses before search and rescue crews were on site.

“There wasn’t much to go through in the case of the search I was involved in, a house that was two stories was now about two metres high,” said Utzig. “It was shocking and distressing. And people who were just outside the zone who stood by and watched it are pretty shaken up.”

Utzig said he knows the four people who are still unaccounted for and are two adults and the man’s two daughters who are in their teens or early 20s.

“It’s a small group of people, including tempor-ary residents it’s about 60 people all together; there are probably about 40 or 45 permanent residents,” he said. “It’s fairly tight knit because it’s the end of the road they are often without communication because hydro lines are being cut or phone lines going down and people work together because they are in that kind of isolated situation.”

Reports from the Regional District of Central Kootenay said that the slide was initiated around 11 a.m., Utzig said that the believed the main slide had occured about 10:30 a.m.

“We arrived in Johnsons Landing about 11 a.m. and the slide had already come through,” he said. “It started about 400 metres above the community and it is a large event, we’re talking about a large slide compared to others we see around here. It came down the Gar Creek Valley which is a fairly narrow gully, just when it entered the Gar Creek takes an abrupt turn and part of the slide didn’t take that turn and went up over a little hill into an area where there was half a dozen houses.”

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Geo-seismic crew from the B.C. Ministry of Transportation survey damage to a road Sunday that was torn away by a landslide that buried three homes and has left four people unaccounted for in Johnsons Landing.

FROM PAGE 1Lynn Migdal, who now lives in

Florida, has identified the missing as her 17- and 22-year-old daugh-ters Rachel and Diana Webber, along with her ex-husband Val Webber.

A female German tourist is also believed to have been caught in the debris.

The Ministry of Forests said on the weekend that it had received an email from a Johnson’s Landing resi-dent the morning the slide occurred expressing concern about a moun-tainside creek.

In the email the woman, whose name was not released by the min-istry, said she noticed “surges of

chocolate-coloured water that came down Gar Creek,” each bringing down a significant number of logs and debris and causing a jam.

“As soon as the log jam formed, gravel began to be deposited behind it,” she said. “The entire level of the creek bed has now been raised at least (1.8 metres) in that specific area.”

The woman wrote later the whole creek was flowing over and down her driveway and made reference to a conversation with a friend with search and rescue experience who told her to stay on high ground.

Hours later, the mountainside gave way.

SARAH JENKINS PHOTO/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Valentine Webber is shown with his daughter Rachel Webber in an undated photo. The two are among four people missing in a landslide in the tiny community of Johnsons Landing.

Johnsons Landing residents still missing

TIMES STAFFEnvironment Canada has issued

a severe thunderstorm warning and a severe thunderstorm watch for Greater Trail and the B.C. Southern Interior region throughout the West Kootenay.

The thunderstorm warning and the watch, both issued at close to 2 p.m. this afternoon (July 15), calls for heavy downpours, which could produce 30 mm of rain locally, and warns that some thunderstorms can produce tornadoes.

The storm watch warns of large hail

and damaging winds.“An upper low moving southeastward

along the British Columbia south coast will create a favourable environment for the development of thunderstorms over Southern British Columbia today and this evening.

“Some of these storms may become severe with locally heavy downpours up to 30 mm and intense lightning being the main threat,” read a bulletin at the Environment Canada site.

Environment Canada advises people

to monitor weather conditions and take necessary precautions if threatening weather approaches.

A severe thunderstorm was issued last Friday, which produced lightning, some rain, and temporarily knocked power out for some residents in the West Kootenay area late-Friday night and early into Saturday.

The site also warned of future thunder-storm warnings for the early part of this week as the hot weather continues in the Greater Trail region.

Severe thunderstorm warning issued for West Kootenay

Johnsons Landing ‘in shock’ after massive slide

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The Johnsons Landing landslide is shown in this Thursday July 12 handout photo.

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Juvenile sockeye sal-mon likely didn’t have enough food to survive as they travelled in poor conditions through British Columbia’s Georgia Strait in 2007, resulting in abysmal returns to the Fraser River two years later, a

new study suggests.About 10 scientists

came to that conclu-sion after crunching fisheries and meteoro-logical data, which the federal government began collecting in the late 1990s.

Their findings, ori-ginally presented to the judicial inquiry examin-

ing the historically low sockeye returns, have now been published in three papers in the jour-nal Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science.

The publica-tion comes before B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen is expected to present his findings into the issue in September.

“If you’ve got these years where ocean-ic conditions are unfavourable to food production you’re real-ly going to have trouble with the stocks,” said Richard Thomson, a Fisheries Department oceanographer and a study co-author.

In 2009, only about one-tenth of the expected 10 million sockeye returned to the watershed, sparking the federally appointed Cohen commission to

examine what caused the 2009 collapse of the Fraser River sockeye.

Numerous theories on why the sharp decline resulted were pre-sented at the 21-month inquiry that wrapped up last November in Vancouver.

Thomson said scien-tists in the study he was involved in concluded that an “extraordin-ary event” was taking place in the Straight of Georgia, the body of water running between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland.

He said that when scientists began to notice there wasn’t enough food in the stomachs of salmon, and there were fewer and smaller herring than usual, researchers formed an interdisci-plinary team to tackle the issue.

“This team came together to try to

understand how the physical environment could be affecting the fishery. And, you know, the herring was sort of a clincher, the fact that the herring were so stressed, and they’re a food source for many of the fisheries.”

Scientists focused on three related issues in an effort to understand what was going on.

Dave Preikshot, a fisheries scientist, and his four co-auth-ors studied how long juvenile sockeye sal-mon were spending in the Strait of Georgia before heading out into the ocean.

“It appears to be at least 31 (days) and it could be as long as, I think, 52 (days) is the upper limit there,” he said.

Fisheries scientists in the 1950s and 1960s inferred that sockeye salmon didn’t stay in

the strait but migrated through it without lin-gering, Preikshot said.

In the 1990s, scien-tists suggested juvenile sockeye salmon were in the strait from 20 to 30 days, he said.

Establishing the amount of time the young salmon spend there is important because fisheries scien-tists believe the major-ity of fish die early in life, Preikshot said.

“If that is true, the longer they are in the Strait of Georgia, the more likely it is that significant things deter-mining their return migrating population also occur in the Strait of Georgia,” he said.

Retired biologist Dick Beamish, who is also an emeritus scien-tist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, tackled the issue of poor survival rate of sockeye salmon.

He found that while the Fraser River pro-duced about 454 mil-lion juvenile sockeye salmon in 2007, only about 1.4 million returned in 2009.

“We think 2007 represented an extremely poor year for food production at the time those fish would either be entering the Strait of Georgia, or in the case of herring when the larval herring would first start feed-ing,” Beamish said.

According to his paper, a survey fishery in 2007 noted a lack of juvenile sockeye sal-mon in the strait and the small size of sock-eye that were caught.

The paper says coho and chinook salmon in the strait at the time were also smaller than in previous surveys.

A high percentage of them also had empty stomachs.

THE CANADIAN PRESSThe federal government

will appeal a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling which struck down Canada’s ban on assisted suicide, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Friday.

The landmark ruling last month said the ban is uncon-stitutional and gave the federal government a year to rewrite it.

But Judge Lynn Smith also granted an immediate exemp-tion to the law, allowing Gloria Taylor, one of the women who brought the lawsuit, to die with a doctor’s help.

In a statement, Nicholson said the government intends to seek a stay on all aspects of the ruling, including the exemp-tion for Taylor, while it goes to the British Columbia Court of

Appeal.“The government is of the

view that the Criminal Code provisions that prohibit medical professionals, or anyone else, from counselling or providing assistance in a suicide, are con-stitutionally valid,” the state-ment said.

“The government also objects to the lower court’s decision to grant a ‘constitutional exemp-tion’ resembling a regulatory framework for assisted suicide.”

Taylor, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, hailed the lower court’s ruling because it gives her control over when and how she dies.

She had hoped the govern-ment wouldn’t appeal.

“I would really like to think that the government would

see that they can’t do this to me,” Taylor said last month. “They can’t do this to other Canadians.’

In her complex, 395-page judgment, Smith said the ban on physician-assisted suicide violates two sections of the char-ter of rights covering the right to equality and the right to life, lib-erty and security of the person.

She said the law must allow for doctor-assisted suicide in cases where patients have a serious illness or disability and are experiencing intolerable suffering.

Such patients must ask for the help, must be free of coer-cion and cannot be clinically depressed, the ruling noted.

Nicholson, though, said the law has to protect people.

Lack of food, ocean conditions behind poor sockeye returns: scientists

THE CANADIAN PRESSLengthy prison terms

have been handed to a former Canadian bor-der guard and another man who were found guilty of smuggling cocaine and guns into B.C. from Washington.

Baljinder Singh Kandola, who was

a guard with the Canadian Border Services Agency, was given 15 years, while Shminder Singh Johal, a former co-owner of a car business, was hand-ed 18 years.

They were arrested in Surrey in October 2007 when police

seized 208 kilograms of cocaine, three fire-arms and ammunition from a car driven by a third man. The court was told that Johal con-spired with Kandola to bring the illicit goods through Kandola’s checkpoint at the Pacific Border crossing

south of Vancouver.Kandola was found

guilty of conspiring to import cocaine, importing cocaine, breach of trust and corruption. Johal was convicted of conspir-acy, drug and weapons charges, as well as brib-ing Kandola.

Federal gov’t will appeal assisted-suicide ruling

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Canada’s aboriginal peoples aren’t the only ones insisting they be treated as equal partners at the natural resources negotiating table.

Big business wants them there too - and is urging the federal and provincial govern-ments to give them a helping hand.

A new report due Monday from the Canadian Council of Chief Executives calls on gov-ernments to make aboriginal communities full partners in developing energy and min-ing projects.

A copy of the report, which comes in advance of the annu-al meeting of premiers later this month, was obtained by The Canadian Press.

John Manley, the coun-cil’s chief executive, says the viability of billions of dollars in natural resource investment is at stake, since no company wants to invest in a project that could be disrupted.

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a growing aboriginal work-force, and develop new ways to allow aboriginal commun-ities to participate in business initiatives and wealth-sharing negotiations.

THE CANADIAN PRESSJust as the dust began to settle

from a tumultuous annual meet-ing, Research In Motion was hit with another setback as a northern California jury ordered the troubled

BlackBerry maker to pay $147.2 mil-lion in a patent lawsuit.

The Ontario-based company was fresh out of a meeting when the verdict came down in the suit over a remote management system

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Public Works rolled out red carpet for firms from minister’s ridingBY JENNIFER DITCHBURN

THE CANADIAN PRESSPublic Works and

Government Services Canada laid out the wel-come mat for two com-panies from Christian Paradis’ Quebec riding at the minister’s behest, a practice that raised concerns with the fed-eral ethics watchdog and spurred change inside the department.

In 2009, when Paradis was Public Works minister, he directed bureaucrats to set up meetings with two firms from Thetford Mines, Que., that were promoting their products - Thermo Pieux and Pultrall.

One of those meet-ings took place in the minister’s boardroom with about a dozen bureaucrats from Public Works and from the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The planning involved civil servants up to the deputy minis-ter’s office.

That was the same year Paradis got a meeting set up for for-mer Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer’s company - a move that Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson said amounted to preferential treat-ment for a friend and broke the rules.

In that March report, Dawson briefly referred to the meetings with the two Quebec companies for context. Documents about the meetings were released to The Canadian Press last week under the Access to Information Act.

Dawson reiterated Friday that although ministers are MPs and should represent their constituents, there are limits.

“Ministers must ensure that they do not give preference to their constituents in their roles as Ministers that would not be available to any other Canadian,” Dawson said.

Public Works said that action had been taken to address situa-tions where the minis-ter wants civil servants to meet with companies from the local riding,

but didn’t elaborate.“Policies and proced-

ures on this matter have been communicated to staff through train-ing initiatives,” said an emailed statement.

The department also said it introduced guidelines for meetings in 2011, which includes a section on what to do if the minister requests a meeting with a third-

party. Public Works developed an “organ-izational code of con-duct” in 2012, which features “ethical scen-arios,” but it did not provide a document.

Canadian Council of Chief Executives points:

• Canada’s richest resources are found near aboriginal communities, leading to “legitimate con-cerns” for land claims and environmental impact.

• Governments and aboriginal leaders need to step up, improve educa-tion, work with business community for training, and design solutions to underemployment.

• Engagement with aboriginal communities needs to start early on in energy, resource projects.

• Business has reason to finance and invest in business acumen in aboriginal communities.

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BY BRUCE STEWARTTroy Media

Wouldn’t it be great if our assets always appreci-ated, prices at the stores fell, our jobs were secure and real pay raises were coming our way?

Here’s a closer look at the years ahead. Asset prices will be stagnant for the most part, and more likely to fall than rise.

Some prices will go down, but don’t expect to see that at the grocery store, or at the gas pumps; very often: those are headed up. Other countries are going to mostly be worse off than we Canadians will be, but that won’t help our export-led economy, and our public sectors are going to shrink like it or not.

As for pay raises, don’t hold your breath: they’re going to be few and far between. More likely, you’ll be asked to take reduced hours at least once in the next few years.

That’s a pretty grim pic-ture. The good news is, if you treat it seriously, you’ll probably do better than

okay. Only if you keep think-ing “it’s going to get better any day now” are you likely to end up getting hurt.

Japan is one place that’s been living like this for more than two decades now.

Since 1990, Japan’s economy has been helped by exports, but it’s been a long grind for other parts of its economy.

(The Nikkei average for Japanese stocks is 1/4 of what it was back then, and Japan’s had 0 per cent inter-est rates for so long now that savings actually cost money, thanks to taxation.)

The housing market slipped and fell and has never recovered.

We’re better off than that - but closer to it than it looks.

Yet the average Japanese thinks the last two years haven’t been altogether bad.

They’ve paid down debt, retiring as much paying of interest as they could (that paid better than investing).

They’ve moved upmarket, buying quality goods when they needed to

buy - or waiting a year to get a better product at a better price.

They spend more on transportation and food than before, but otherwise they’ve handled the stagna-tion well.

These are lessons Canadians need to learn, because the rest of the world is determined that the plan-et will stagnate.

In this country, we’ve got some pretty profligate gov-ernments.

They’ve racked up debts to the point where interest payments are a real prob-lem: Ontario’s annual pay-ments exceed everything other than health and edu-cation spending, and are about to pass education.

Wrestling the budgets down isn’t an option: it’s becoming mandatory.

A global credit crunch will send interest rates up as everyone backs off funding governments without get-ting a good premium for it.

So the broader public sector, both federally and provincially, is going to be cut back, which, in turn,

slows the economy.Meanwhile, when you

see high flying countries like China, India, Russia and Brazil (to pick the four big-gest) shrinking their growth estimates dramatically, and retrenching their spending, you know that we’re going to see that hit our exports - and Canada, like Japan, is an exporting nation.

That puts the crunch on the private sector: less over-time, fewer shifts, maybe even some closures.

Our companies have been rapidly trying to shed their debt since 2008. Many of the rest of us as indi-viduals and families have piled it on, instead. New bigger mortgages, new lines of credit, more on the old credit cards.

As American finan-cial commentator Karl Denninger notes in the opening credits to his week-ly podcast, “The Market Ticker”, it’s a deflationary period. The value of money is going up; debt gets more expensive to service. All this before higher interest rates hit our family balance

sheets, too.Food and energy are the

great exceptions to this. Food for us is mostly energy anyway: hydrocarbons get cracked to make fertilizers, fuels for farm equipment keep irrigation pumps run-ning and keep the process-ing and distribution systems humming.

As for energy, we may still be finding lots of it, but what we’re finding is the expensive stuff: lots of cap-ital to extract it, lots more to process it.

Give us $20 per barrel (bbl) oil for five years and the economy will boom, but we’re not going to have a lot of $20/bbl ever again.

That’s why we’re hav-ing so much trouble getting things firing on all cylinders again.

Get smart about your future. The years ahead can’t, and won’t, be fixed by government action. This time, it’s up to you.

Troy Media columnist Bruce A Stewart is a Toronto-based management consult-ant. You can reach him at http://about.me/bastewart.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSCanada’s financial industry

regulator will look into whether an interest rate rigging scandal that has rocked global banks could happen in Canada.

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada said Friday it is not aware of problems, but is launching a review of Canadian practices in light of the interest-rate fixing scandal engulfing European and American banks related to a rate known as Libor.

IIROC is reviewing what is known as CDOR, the Canadian dealer offered rate, set daily at 10 a.m. through a survey of rates provided by nine market makers, including Canada’s big banks.

“While we are not aware of concerns at this time with the setting of CDOR, recent experi-ences with Libor point to a need

for increased scrutiny of such survey-based reference rates and IIROC is conducting a review of current practices among CDOR survey participants,” said Lucy Becker, IIROC vice president for public affairs.

The Libor rate is little-known outside the financial industry. It is short for the London interbank overnight rate that provides a benchmark for trillions of dollars in contracts around the world, including mortgages.

A British banking trade group sets the rate every morning after international banks submit esti-mates of what it costs them to borrow money.

The IIROC review is not related to a Competition Bureau investigation into whether Canadian affiliates of six inter-national banks played a role in the fixing scandal with Libor.

The scandal was sparked when venerable British bank Barclays admitted that it had submitted false information, resulting in a fine of $US$453 million and the resignation of its chief executive.

The investigation has since spread to several other banks, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche bank, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released documents Friday that show it learned five years ago of big banks under-stating their borrowing costs to manipulate the key interest rate. The documents also show Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was then presi-dent of the New York Fed, urged the Bank of England to make the rate-setting process more trans-parent.

Industry regulator launches probe into Canadian lending rate setting

BY MALCOLM MORRISONTHE CANADIAN PRESS

The Canadian dollar could find itself under some selling pres-sure this week after the country’s central bank makes its next scheduled interest rate announcement on Tuesday.

There is no doubt that the Bank of Canada will keep its key inter-est rate unchanged at one per cent, reflecting a general global eco-nomic slowdown.

But traders will be looking to the central

bank’s commentary for an idea of where it thinks the Canadian economy is headed and hints about when it might get around to raising rates.

“If the bank aggres-sively cuts its economic forecast and abandons its mild tightening bias, the currency could be dinged a bit,” said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital markets.

Porter said there is a strong case for the Bank of Canada to move back towards a more neutral

bias as far as rates are concerned.

He notes that almost every major central bank in the world “has eased in some way over the last month whether it’s quantitative easing by the Bank of England or actually outright cuts by the European Central Bank and all kinds of emerging mar-kets, like China and Korea.”

The bank had indi-cated earlier this year that it might move to raise rates, but wors-ening economic condi-

tions have dampened any expectations for a hike any time soon.

“We have again had to shift our view on the bank,” said Porter.

“Back in April, we had brought forward when we had them starting to hike rates and subsequently we have put them right back to where they were. So we don’t see the next rate hike by the Bank of Canada until about a year from now.”

The Canadian dol-lar hasn’t closed above parity with the U.S. dollar since early May and since then the com-modity-sensitive loonie has generally found a perch around 97 or 98 cents. That is a level of strength Porter found surprising consider-ing that oil prices have tumbled almost 20 per cent since the begin-ning of May while cop-per prices have fallen by about 12 per cent.

“I do believe it is trading well above the so-called fair value based on where com-modity prices are now,” said Porter.

“The currency should be lower.”

Meanwhile, stock markets will be focused on an increasing num-ber of second-quarter earnings reports from corporate America.

Citigroup kicks off and General Electric wraps up the week and there are plenty of major reports in between.

Glencore International receives federal approval for Viterra bid

Bank of Canada rate plans to focus investors

THE CANADIAN PRESSThe federal government signed off Sunday on Glencore International

PLC’s bid to acquire Canadian agribusiness giant Viterra Inc, bringing the Swiss commodities supplier’s multi-billion dollar transaction one step closer to completion.

The $6.1 billion bid was approved by Industry Minister Christian Paradis under the Investment Canada Act.

“I approve an application under the act if I am satisfied that the invest-ment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada,” Paradis said in a state-ment.

“Glencore has made a number of commitments to Canada.”Glencore released a statement Sunday emphasizing its commitments

to investing in Regina-based Viterra’s (TSX:VT) operations and to grow-ing western Canada’s agricultural industry.

“We are very pleased to receive Investment Canada approval, which recognizes the long term benefits for farmers and Canada from our acquisition of Viterra,” Chris Mahoney, Glencore’s director of agricultural products, said in a statement released Sunday.

Glencore had said it expects to get all of the regulatory approvals it needs to close the transaction by the end of July. But it now suggests it may not meet that deadline as it waits for a review approval from the Ministry of Commerce in China, where Viterra has operations.

Glencore also requires final approval from New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office and Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board.

The company said it will provide an update on when it expects the deal to close “in due course.”

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Marion Cunningham, the home-cooking champion whose legacy can be found in the food-spattered pages of Fannie Farmer cookbooks in kitch-ens across America, has died at 90.

Cunningham, who had been ill for some years, died Wednesday of com-plications from Alzheimer’s disease at the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Best known for her revisions of the classic “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook,” in 1979 and again in 1990, Cunningham also wrote several other books, including The Breakfast Book, Cooking with Children, and Lost Recipes. She also hosted a television series, Cunningham & Company that aired on the Food Network.

Though she moved in rarefied circles that included culinary lumin-aries such as James Beard and Alice Waters, Cunningham resisted trendi-ness. She was an ardent supporter of the humble iceberg lettuce and specialized in simple recipes.

Along with that approach went a deep concern about the disappear-ance of the home-cooked meal eaten en famille. “Home cooking is a cata-lyst that brings people together,” she wrote in the forward to Lost Recipes. ”We are losing the daily ritual of sit-ting down around the table (without the intrusion of television), of having the opportunity to interact, to share our experiences and concerns, to lis-ten to others.“

Waters, a longtime friend and the force behind the groundbreaking Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., said Cunningham preached the value of food quality and home cooking long before it was fashion-able, and in doing so became the nucleus of what grew into the mod-ern food movement.

“She had so much humour and charm and earnestness and passion and all of that, everybody listened up,” Waters said in a telephone inter-view. “And she was always cham-pioning the people around the coun-try who really expressed that, those feelings about the table and simpli-city. In that sense, she almost sewed together the movement.”

Born in Southern California,

Cunningham married her high school sweetheart, Robert Cunningham. The couple, who had two children, later moved to Walnut Creek, east of San Francisco. Robert Cunningham, a lawyer, died in the late ‘80s.

A self-taught cook, Cunningham didn’t take her first steps toward a cookbook career until her mid-40s when she travelled to Oregon to take a class that Beard, then a chef and food writer, was teaching.

Beard subsequently invited her to be his assistant and, later, recom-mended her for the job when pub-lisher Alfred A. Knopf was looking for someone to update the classic Fannie Farmer cookbook.

Cunningham also was a bit of a car enthusiast - she ran a gas station for two years during World War II - and a Jaguar was her main indulgence once she became successful. She regularly drove into San Francisco to have dinner with friends.

More recently she had been too ill to go out, though she was still a pres-ence in food circles, toasted at din-ners held in honour of her birthday at restaurants like Chez Panisse and San Francisco’s Foreign Cinema.

In 1993, she received the Grand Dame award from Les Dames d’Escoffier, an organization of women leaders in food, beverage and hospitality, in recognition of her achievement and contribution to the culinary arts, and in 1994 she was named Scholar-in-Residence by the Int. Assoc. of Culinary Professionals.

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Comic-Con crazy for ‘Hobbit’ footageBY DAVID GERMAIN

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSIf reaction to The Hobbit foot-

age at Comic-Con is any indica-tion, Peter Jackson has another couple of blockbusters on his hands.

The crowd attending Jackson’s “Hobbit” preview at the fan con-vention Saturday went wild over a 12-minute reel the filmmaker and his colleagues screened.

Broken into two films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the 3-D epic is Jackson’s prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, whose finale won 11 Academy Awards, including best picture and director.

An Unexpected Journey arrives in theatres Dec. 14, with There and Back Again following in December 2013.

The films are based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel novel, chron-icling how tiny hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) acquired the ring of power that causes all the ruckus in The Lord of the Rings, Jackson’s three-part adaptation of Tolkien’s fantasy saga.

Along with Jackson and Freeman, The Hobbit panel at Comic-Con featured Lord of the Rings co-stars Ian McKellen, who reprises his role as the wizard Gandalf, and Andy Serkis, who is back as twisted ring-keep-er Gollum. Also on hand was Richard Armitage, who plays the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield.

Jackson showed 12 minutes of footage that included a chillingly comic exchange between Bilbo and Gollum; a tender moment between McKellen’s Gandalf and Cate Blanchett, reprising her role as elf queen Galadriel; and the pivotal moment when Bilbo

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Marion Cunningham in a May 27, 2004 file photo.

discovers the ring.A surprise guest was Elijah

Wood, who starred as hobbit Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings.

Freeman said he never felt intimidated as a newcomer to Jackson’s team.

“Obviously, you can’t really take intimidation or pressure to work with you, because you won’t do your best work,” Freeman said. “And you won’t do your best playing, which is an actor’s job.”

Jackson shot The Hobbit in 3-D and at 48 frames a second, twice the speed that has been the standard since the 1920s. The higher frame rate allows for greater visual clarity, though

it requires costly upgrades to digital projectors for cinemas showing films at that speed.

At the Cinema Con theatre owner’s convention in April, Jackson got a mixed reception for preview footage of “The Hobbit” shown at 48 frames a second.

Some observers thought the images were too clear, so real-istic that it took away from the magic of the film medium.

At Comic-Con, Jackson chose to show his footage at the trad-itional 24 frames a second, say-ing the best way to experience the higher projection speed is by watching an entire movie at 48 frames a second, not just excerpts.

BY SANDY COHENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Robert Downey Jr. made a Tony Stark-like entrance Saturday into the San Diego Convention Center’s largest exhibition hall, dancing up through the aisles among more than 6,000 fansa.

The Iron Man star joined Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige at Comic-Con to show footage from the film, due next summer, and announce the studio’s upcoming superhero film slate. He appeared while wearing the right hand of his Iron Man costume with a suit and tie.

The Iron Man 3 clip showed Stark’s latest incarnation of his super suit, pieces of which fly across his workshop and attach themselves to his body. It showed his cliffside compound crum-bling into the sea and his cache of Iron Man suits being blasted to bits.

The footage also offered a look at Sir Ben Kingsley as the villain Mandarin and franchise newcomers Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall, along with the return of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle’s James Rhodes and Jon Favreau’s Happy Hogan. Favreau, who directed the first two Iron Manfilms, served as an executive producer on the third installment.

“I feel like a proud grandfather who doesn’t have to change the diapers but gets to play with the baby,” Favreau said, appearing on the Marvel panel with Cheadle and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black.

Downey Jr. mixes in ‘Iron Man’ preview

OZUST, ALLAN GEORGE “OZZIE” — passed away peacefully at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at the age of 84. Ozzie was the loving partner of Sylvia for 43 years, dear dad of Tanya (Kirp) Johl of Vancouver, cherished grandfather of Rodney Romas of Port Hardy, and great grandfather of Tori Romus of Port Hardy. He is survived by his brother Elton Ozust of Trail.

A special thank you to the doctors and nurses at the Trail hospital for their support and care over the last six weeks. At Ozzie’s request there will be no service.

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Orioles were whistling the sweet sound of suc-cess as it secured its spot in the Senior Men’s Western Canadian base-ball championship Aug. 23-27 by taking the bite out of the Vernon Diamondbacks at Butler Park Saturday.

Trail took both ends of a double-header in Vernon last month by scores of 1-0 and 10-0, and needed just one more win in the best-of-five series to advance.

The birds didn’t waste any time as the team played flawless baseball en route to a 9-1 opening match vic-tory.

“They hit the ball really well,” said Orioles coach Dave Colquhoun. “We’ve been working really hard on those things, just getting bunts down, and play-ers scoring.”

It was a tight 2-1 game heading into the bottom of the fourth inning when Brady Glover led off with a single, stole second, and Jesse Rypien walked.

Lead-off batter Conner Jones then stepped up and belted a double to centre field scoring Rypien and Glover to stake the O’s to a 4-1 lead. Jones would later score on a passed ball.

Pitcher Scott Rhynold struck out the side in the fourth. But after walking the first batter to start the fifth, he picked him off with a quick move to first base, and got the next

two batters to fly out. Over five innings

work, Rhynold gave up one run on three hits, walked three and struck out eight before Scott Robertson came on in relief in the sixth.

The stellar pitching was backed up by good defense, a growing con-cern earlier in the sea-son, said Colquhoun.

“Our defence need-ed to get a little bet-ter, just because we haven’t played as much what with the rain this year, but our pitching is

always good.” The Orioles added

four more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning in what would turn out to be its final at bat.

The Orioles exe-cuted brilliantly on the night, whether it was a sacrifice fly, a bunt or hit-and-run, they came through in every situa-tion.

“Hitting is a tough thing to do, so I was really happy with the way the players were hitting the ball today,”

said Colquhoun. Jones, Glover, Jim

Maniago, Ryan Levigne, and Kyle Paulson all went 2-for-4 for the O’s with Jones and Levigne each picking up a pair of RBI’s.

Paulson started the second game of the night and picked up a win in another domin-ating Oriole perform-ance as they cruised to a 16-2 victory in the second half of the double bill.

The Orioles final home games of the

season go this week-end against Pacific International League rival Seattle Studs at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Butler Park on Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.

The Orioles play in the provincial cham-pionship in Prince George Aug. 4-6, then head to the Western championship in Winnipeg.

Trail wraps up its season with the Grand Forks International tournament Aug. 30-Sept. 2.

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Pitcher Scott Rhynold led the AM Ford Trail Orioles to victory and a spot in the Western Canadian Senior Mens Baseball Championship in Winnipeg with a victory over the Vernon Diamondbacks on Saturday. The Orioles swept the best of five series winning four games before being rained out on Sunday.

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BY TIMES STAFFA small but impres-

sive crew of divers from the Trail StingRays div-ing club returned from a successful trip to North Vancouver last week, toting lots of hardware.

The team of five competitive divers took home 10 medals from the North Vancouver Diving Competition at the UBC Aquatic Facility.

In the one-meter and three metre dives the Rays swept each event as Christopher Tremblay took home double gold for the

15-16-age category, while Paul MacLean narrowly beat out Joseph French, each taking home two silver and two bronze med-als respectively in the same events.

In the 13-14, one-metre girls dive, Emma MacLean scooped gold with 196.30 and dupli-cated that in the three metre with a 180.85 total.

Andrew Sibbald was also a double medal winner with a gold in the three-meter, nine-10 Div. and silver in the one-metre.

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BY CRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News

With the BC Summer Games just a few days away, several athletes, coaches, managers, and parents, were able to pick up some valuable information at a “Guide to the Games” session held at the Castlegar Community Complex last week.

“These G2G or Guide to the Games sessions are being held in all eight zones

of the province,” said Chris Trentholm, event manager for the BC Summer Games Society. “For zone 1, which is the Kootenay, we have sessions in Castlegar here tonight for West Kootenay participants and one tomorrow night (Wednesday) in Cranbrook.”

At the session, Trentholm provided information and guidelines to help the athletes prepare for the games.

“We want to review the materials that

help them understand what they’re get-ting into with the games,” he said. “We also want to help them better prepare for their games experience.”

Trentholm said the society wants the athletes to have the best experience they can at the games.

Some of the biggest questions Trentholm is asked are about transpor-tation.

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BY TIMES STAFFThe Trail Little League Minor All-Stars started

the B.C. Little League championships on a win-ning note Saturday by beating host Mt. Seymour 11-7 in extra innings at Zuehlke Park in North Vancouver.

The win is only the first step in a long week of fierce competition against B.C.’s best age 9-10 teams. After a day off Sunday, the Trail All-Stars play five more games including District 5 winner West Vancouver today at 11 a.m.

West Van lost its first game to Little Mountain from District 1 by a score of 12-0 in its opening game Saturday, while South Van’s district 6 beat district 7 Layritz 12-2 in the only other opening day match.

The toughest test will likely be on Tuesday when they face South Vancouver at 1 p.m. and perennial favourites Little Mountain on Friday at 2 p.m. Sunday scores were unavailable at press times.

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The BC Summer Games are in Surrey this year and go from July 19-22.

“BC Games is a big thing all over the province,” said Trentholm. “It’s growing in popularity. It’s a big part of the sports system. Castlegar and Trail and Nelson have a rich history of hosting the games. Not just the BC games, but also the senior games as we saw last year. Greater Trail hosted the winter games in 2006.

There’s a legacy back to 1996 with the sum-mer games. BC games have always been big in Castlegar and in the region as well. We’re always excited to come back to Castlegar and the area.

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opportunity we have to support the latest representatives of our continued aspirations in attempting to rekin-dle some of that flame should not be lost.

So you know, the West Kootenay team starts play Saturday afternoon, right after the 12:30 p.m. opening ceremonies, comes back for the morning game at 10 a.m. Sunday, then will play at dinnertime, - 5 p.m., the rest of the round-robin way.

That means that even if you are encamped at one of the main local lakes, you can com-mute for the games in daylight.

Yours truly played in the second through fifth season of Trail’s Little League existence, long before there was an Andy Bileski lifetime legacy, never mind a park complex named in his honour.

Being that was the middle of a golden age of sports in Trail, there were already signs of the multiple provincial and national champion-ships stature to come.

I am still convinced that, had there been only one local league, at least one Williamsport title would have been the result.

There were, how-ever, two, so half of the local talent was exclud-ed from provincial play depending upon which side of the Columbia they represented in all-star play.

Even at approxi-mately half-strength Trail teams were always contenders and often winners at the provin-cial and national level.

It’s tougher for local teams now. There are fewer kids from

fewer families with more activity choices involved. Nevertheless, this is still a strong base-ball city, the only one across Canada that has most often been able to hold its own with towns from the U.S., where the game is the “National Pastime.”

This tournament should be seen as a very big deal, and we should support it in any way we can.

And like the iconic “Box of Chocolates,” you never know what you are going to get.

Nobody watching a medium-sized Jason Bay two decades ago

could have been certain they were watching a future major-league star.The same can be said of those in attend-ance when such as Larry Walker and countless others were in view at this championship.

Nobody knows until, as Yogi Berra said, “It’s over,” who will win either.

Everybody, almost, knows that showing support for all the kids (and adults) involved will benefit both them and us, now and in the future.

Outstanding reasons to be there. Take the time. You will enjoy it.

LEISURE

Dear Annie: My fiance, “Clyde,” and I have been together for three years. We have a great relationship. We have lived together for two years, and my 5-year-old considers him “Dad.”

Clyde is divorced and has two daughters, 16 and 18. His marriage was destructive and abusive, yet he still goes to his ex-wife’s house three times a week to see his 16-year-old. Clyde and I have only one day together as a family with my son.

His kids want noth-ing to do with me, so they won’t come to our place. I’ve missed out on several family events because his kids didn’t want me there. I have asked Clyde repeat-edly to stop splitting his life in two. His kids will make no effort to know me if he doesn’t insist on it. They are old enough to understand that they should respect our situation even if they don’t like it. And they would benefit from

seeing their father in a healthy relationship.

The ex-wife contin-ues to be controlling and nasty. She con-stantly asks Clyde for favors and says negative things about me to him and his kids. He doesn’t understand why I have a problem with this or why I feel like my son and I take a back seat to his past. I have dis-cussed seeing a coun-selor, but he’s resistant.

I expect Clyde to be there for his kids, but why can’t he cut the strings with his ex? I have been loving, understanding, sup-portive and patient, but I feel that he’s taking advantage because it’s easier to disappoint me

than to stand up to his ex. I make him a pri-ority, and in return, he gives me the scraps. -- Becoming Resentful

Dear Resentful: Clyde doesn’t want to risk losing the affec-tion of his daughters, which is why he is eas-ily manipulated by them and also by their mother. But you are right that they will not respect your relation-ship if he doesn’t insist on it. Get counseling, with or without him, and decide what your next step is.

Dear Annie: For most of her adult life, my older, unmarried sister was a successful execu-tive. Several years ago, she contentedly retired. At the age of 68, how-ever, she is forgetting words here and there and seems a little hazy about some past events. There is no history of Alzheimer’s in my fam-ily, but I am afraid she might be developing dementia. She is aware of this memory issue, and it frustrates her.

She always has prided herself on her intelli-gence and competence.

I don’t want to insult her, and I’m scared to discuss this because she gets her hackles up. My parents lived into their 90s and never had these memory issues. I think she needs to see a doc-tor. What do you rec-ommend? -- Concerned

Dear Concerned: Being unable to come up with the right word at the moment and for-getting some past events are not unusual and do not indicate dementia, but they could indicate stress, poor diet, lack of sleep, too much going on or too little mental stimulation. Here’s a good gauge that we’ve always liked: If you for-get where the keys are, it’s normal. If you for-get what the keys are for, it’s not. Your sister is aware of the problem and is capable of seeing a doctor on her own. If you notice that her lapses are getting sub-stantially worse or are diminishing her ability

to function, then you should urge her to dis-cuss it with a medical professional.

Dear Annie: I am a 14-year breast can-cer survivor and an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society. Please tell

“Beside Myself in Jersey” to contact the ACS at 1-800-227-2345. Her dear mother-in-law does not have to put up with a rude and abusive person to get to appoint-ments. She can get rides from a qualified Road to Recovery driver. These

services are provided at no charge to those fight-ing cancer. -- Palmdale, Calif.

Dear Palmdale: Bless you and all the others who wrote with this suggestion.

TODAY’S CROSSWORD

SOLUTION FOR YESTERDAY’S SUDOKU

Sudoku is a number-plac-ing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each col-umn and each 3x3 box contains the same num-ber only once. The diffi-culty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

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LEISURE

For Tuesday, July 17, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Definitely avoid argu-ments with authority figures, because these easily can erupt today. And if they do, they will escalate into some-thing nasty very quickly. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Be patient with co-workers, especially if you are trying to introduce improvements and reforms where you work. Others will not be receptive. Tread lightly. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Romantic partners might be at odds with each other today. This is a challenging day for parents when dealing with their children, because temper tantrums and melt-downs are likely. Be patient. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Minor appliances might break down at home today, and similarly, family rela-tionships can break down.

Don’t push your agenda with others. Take it easy. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Battles with siblings, neigh-bors and relatives might take place today, because people are pushy and relentless. Who needs this? Run away! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) When it comes to financial matters or discussions about earnings and cash flow, if you are too pushy, you will lose everything. Wait until you see an opening. Or wait until Thursday. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You can use today’s energy to creatively transform the world around you. Or you can have fierce power strug-gles with others. Which is it going to be? (That’s a no-brainer.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You might be doing a slow boil because you feel angry, but you also feel that

you cannot speak up. This is always frustrating. But you probably are right. Hang in there. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Squabbles with others are likely today, because people are at odds with each other. You might find yourself in confrontation with a mem-ber of a group. Be cool. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Do not clash with authority

figures today -- this means parents, teachers, bosses, VIPs and the police. People are rigid, intense and unfor-giving. You will only increase opposition to you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Avoid controversial sub-jects like politics, religion and racial issues today, because discussions could escalate into a fierce argument in a New York minute. Just take it easy.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is not a good day to discuss how to share things or address inheritances or divide jointly held property. Postpone this kind of discus-sion until Thursday. YOU BORN TODAY You might appear shy, quiet or reticent, but underneath this cover is a huge ambition to succeed. You also have a marvelous sense of humor. Freedom and independence

are important to you. Your self-confidence allows you to be very patient in waiting for what you want. In the year ahead, partnerships will be extremely important and will teach you much about your style of relating. Birthdate of: Donald Sutherland, actor; Cory Doctorow, author/activ-ist; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Rossland.Prefer walking distance to

everything, clean & reasonable rent. For August 1st

Call Arne at250-584-9691

Houses For Sale3 BEDROOM 2 BATHROOM. Beautiful hardwood fl oors, tile, newly fi nished basement, beau-tiful kitchen, large fenced yard, detached workshop, great lo-cation close to Gyro beach. $190,000. Call 250-231-5992ROSSLAND brand new 4 bed-rooms 2.5 bathrooms 2 car garage hardwood fl oor no car-peting only $150 per s. feet. 250-362-7716 or rossland-builder.com

LotsFRUITVALE, level lot, 40ft. x 140ft., backs on park. $49,000. 250-368-6076

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Apt/Condo for RentE.TRAIL, 2bdrm. apt. F/S, Coin-op laundry available. 250-368-3239GLENMERRY, 2bdrm, n/p, n/s. References. Available Aug.1st. 250-364-2786ROSSLAND, bach. apt. Gold-en City Manor. Over 55. N/S. N/P. Subsidized. 250-362-3385, 250-362-5030.TRAIL, 1-BDRM, fully fur-nished. Single occupancy. Satellite & internet. N/S, N/P. $600.+util. 250-368-4665.TRAIL, spacious 2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312WANETA MANOR: 3bd, $760 NS, NP, Senior oriented, 250.368.8423

Homes for RentE.TRAIL, 2bd. View of river, near Safeway, $800./mo. 250-231-3172TRAIL, new 3bd. 3bth., gar-age, partially furnished, locat-ed behind Mall, all amenities. $1,400. +util. Available Sept.1 to Apr.1 250-368-7644WARFIELD - 3 Bdrm w/den; h/wd fl oors, d/w, newly reno’d; fenced yard; garage. Refs req’d. Call/txt 604 258-8906 or email kyates93@gmail.comW.TRAIL, 2BDRM., livingroom, hardwood fl oors, updat-ed kitchen, basement garage, covered porch, no lawns to cut. Ideal for single person or couple. $750./mo. + utilities. N/S, N/P. References re-quired. 604-649-9365

Suites, LowerNEW 2 bdrm bright bsmt suite. New appliances incl laundry. 604-828-1978 klhp@shaw.ca

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1252 Bay Avenue, TRAIL (250) 368-5222

Trail $169,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K205620

Rossland $304,900Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900

MLS# K210637

Trail $106,000Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900

MLS# K212061

Fruitvale $264,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K205398

Fruitvale $335,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K205510

Trail $135,900Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K213871

Warfield $169,900Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K211761

Warfield $149,000Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900

MLS# K214253

Trail $219,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K211181

Trail $265,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K212989

Fruitvale $269,000Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K212336

Trail $155,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K207019

Trail $105,000Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900

MLS#KK204267xx

Trail $215,000Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900

MLS# K206097

Warfield $224,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K212535

Trail $239,900 Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K210399

Christina Lake $1,500,000 Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K213216

Fruitvale $499,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K214516

New Listing

Trail $145,500Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K124451

New Listing

Fruitvale $429,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K213040

10 Acres

Trail $149,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K214159

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Boats BOATING SEASON IS

HERE FINALLY!WANNA HAVE SOME FUN

WITH YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS THIS SUMMER!!Your Cabin on the Lake

The Kootenay Queen

• 1976 30ft cabin cruiser with a 185 merc

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• Fold down table for a queen sized bed

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dated.• Low draft• 200 hrs on new engine• A great boat that needs

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Rossland cont’d Route 414 18 papers Thompson Ave, Victoria AveRoute 416 10 papers 3rd Ave, 6th Ave, Elmore St, Paul SRoute 420 17 papers 1st, 3rd Kootenay Ave, Leroi AveRoute 421 9 papers Davis & Spokane StRoute 422 8 papers 3rd Ave, Jubliee St, Queen St & St. Paul St.Route 424 9 papers Ironcolt Ave, Mcleod Ave, Plewman WayRoute 434 7 papers 2nd Ave, 3rd Ave, Turner Ave

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NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!

2055 Phoenix Avenue, Rossland$425,000

New construction with NO HST!! This 4 bedroom /3 bath home is situated on a sunny 60x100 lot and features an open floor plan with 3 bedrooms on the main floor and 1 down. Black walnut

hardwood and heated tile floors, gas fireplace, large rec room.

Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

3721 Woodland Drive, Trail $225,000

This 2-3 bdrm home is very well maintained, has a great, fenced yard with

large covered patio and good parking. Bright kitchen/dining, large living room. Central air and underground sprinkling. Call for an appointment to view, this is a

great package.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

1325 Columbia Avenue, Trail $167,500

This East Trail charmer offers very large living room, bright spacious kitchen,

2 bdrms on main, updated bathroom with jetted tub. You will love the yard with great

covered patio, raised gardens, mature flower beds, underground sprinklers and

back alley access to garage. This home is special, call your REALTOR® to view.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

1638 Cedar Avenue, Trail $225,000

TRAIL TREASURE... This amazing 3 bdrm character home is privately

situated, yet a short walk to town. Great oak flooring, main floor laundry, large dining and living room with custom

fireplace. The views are gorgeous. Low maintenance yard and covered parking.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1739 First Street, Fruitvale $269,000

Fantastic Fruitvale 3 bed/2.5 bath family home on a quiet street offering a private backyard, large deck, spacious rooms,

newer wood stove insert, many upgrades including flooring and paint. Great sun exposure and layout as well as double

carport. Don’t miss out on this one! Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

660 Dickens Street, Warfield$214,995

Cute 3 bdrm with many upgrades including kitchen, windows and electrical.

Deck off the kitchen/dining area, large 2 car garage with attached

workshop area. Call your REALTOR® to view this great family home.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

REDUCED

730 Binns Street, Trail $149,900

There’s character everywhere! Updated electrical, hardwood floors, large living/

dining rooms, huge country kitchen, private yard, plenty of parking... the list

goes on. This one is a must see! Call Art (250) 368-8818

57 Moller Road, Fruitvale $263,500

Super family home located in the friendly community of Fruitvale- 3 bdrms/2 bthrms.

Great floor plan for the whole family, finished on both levels.

Call your REALTOR® for a viewing, you will be pleased.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

795 Dickens Street, Warfield $153,900

3 bdrm 2 bath solid home. Great neighbourhood, nice price! Underground sprinklers, air conditioning, gas fireplace,

laminate flooring.Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

NEW PRICE

129 – 12th Avenue, Genelle $165,000

Recently remodelled bath, laminate floor, wood-burning fireplace, deck, fruit trees, single car garage, room for all the toys!

Priced well under assessed value! Plenty of elbow room here and only minutes

away from Trail or Castlegar. Call Terry 250-231-1101

SOLD

1586 Pine Avenue, Trail $149,000

Great value in this 3 bedroom plus den, 2 bath home featuring laminate/ceramic

tile, new windows, furnace with central air, single car garage. Ideal home for starter,

investment or downsizing. Low maintenance yard.

148 Haig Street, Warfield $219,000

4 bdrm/2 bath property on 0.46 acre lot. Top and bottom are currently rented. This

property includes - 200 amp service - newer windows, upgraded plumbing - single garage

- newer roof. Call now!

NEW LISTING

Call Darlene (250) 231-0527 or Ron (250) 368-1162

REGIONAL

BY MEGA COLENelson Star

Search and rescue crews have located the area where they believe Valentine John Webber’s home stood.

Whitney Numan - search and rescue co-ordinator with Bulkley Valley – said at a press confer-ence this evening that with the help of the regional district search and rescue has sent co-ordinates of Webber’s home’s foundation to the onsite team.

“What search teams have been doing is focusing on a grid search from where the roof was located up passed that over top of the foundation not knowing the exact location and continuing up the hill to Petra Frehse’s house looking for debris indicating that some stuff is there,” said Numan.

RCMP and search and rescue are confirming for the first time that the people missing in the slide are 60-year-old Valentine (Val) John Webber and his daugh-

ters 17-year-old Rachel Elizabeth Webber, 22-year-old Diana Katherine Webber, and a 64-year-old German woman Petra Frehse.

Crews had accessed the roof of the Webber home yesterday which is now believed to be at least 40 metres down the slide site.

Now that crews have the co-ordinates, the next step is plan-ning how they will dig down to the cement foundation, where officials, neighbours and family are hoping the family is still alive.

Frehse’s home is completely covered by at between 3 and 5 metres of debris.

“It’s not easy to locate stuff,” said Numan. “ It’s not like an ava-lanche where you can dig down with shovels, here once you’ve located the foundation we’ll talk about whether or not we can get the excavator in there and that could be problematic given that we don’t know what the soil con-tent is like and the moisture.”

Numan described the con-

sistency of the debris field to con-crete.

“It’s almost impossible to dig through it,” he said. “It’s so com-pacted it’s almost like concrete.You could not put a probe through there.”

Now that crews have a loca-

tion in their sights, the next step is getting to it, but with stability and safety still a factor, search and rescue are moving cautiously, but efficiently.

“It’s dynamic,” said Numan about the stability of the site. “The spotters are keeping an eye on

any further movement or water accumulations up high that could release.

“We are also looking at trying to find another method of estab-lishing any subtle movements in the debris. We also need to deter-mine how much moisture content is below the surface.

“People can walk on the debris field. But there is no saying what will happen if we bring an excav-ator on to it.”

With crews being unable to dig by hand, heavy equipment will be needed to get to the foundation.

Numan said crews would likely begin attempting to access the foundation tomorrow morning.

There are now search and res-cue volunteers from Kimberley, Nelson, Kaslo, Campbell River, South Columbia and Bulkley Valley, totalling 31.

Canada Task Force 1 is still on location with 30 crew members on in the area and 25 on site in Johnsons Landing.

Search and rescue prepare to dig for missing family

MEGAN COLE PHOTO

Whitney Numan with Buckley Valley Search and Rescue compared working in the landslide debris field to digging in concrete.